CFTC Tech Advisors to Talk Crypto, Blockchain This Week

Blockchain technologies and cryptocurrencies will be front and center at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s Technology Advisory Committee meeting Wednesday, according to a newly published agenda.

The meeting’s agenda, released late Monday afternoon, outlines how the first two panels will focus on blockchain and its potential applications to derivatives markets, as well as the relevant regulations surrounding cryptocurrencies and futures markets, respectively.

This panel will focus on cryptocurrencies themselves, as well as futures products based on them, according to the agenda. Changes in the markets and regulations surrounding them will also be discussed.

The panels come at a time of renewed regulatory discussion in the space. A week ago, CFTC chairman J. Christopher Giancarlo testified in front of the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs about the role regulations may play in future cryptocurrency markets. Giancarlo will give opening remarks alongside Commissioners Brian Quintenz and Rostin Behnam.

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